Alyxia reinwardtii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Alyxia reinwardtii Blume

Protologue: Blume, Catalogus: 43 (1923).

• Alyxia stellata auct. non (J.R. Forster & G. Forster) Roem. & Schult.,
• Alyxia lucida Wallich (1824),
• Alyxia pumila Hook.f. (1882),
• Alyxia forbesii King & Gamble (1908).

• Indonesia: pulasari (general), pulosari (Javanese), palasari (Sundanese)
• Thailand: chalut (central, south-eastern), luut, nuut (peninsular)
• Vietnam: ngôn dây vát.

From southern China, through Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, southward to the Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and Palawan.

A. reinwardtii is the most common source of pulasari for "adas-pulasari", used in jamus, Javanese traditional medicine, to treat various illnesses. In Thailand, all parts are used as an antipyretic and cardiotonic.

• A ground creeper or climber.
• Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3-5, elliptical, 1.1-17 cm × 0.3-6.1 cm, 1.5-5.1 times longer than wide, glabrous or puberulent.
• Inflorescence axillary or terminal, 1-3.5 cm long, 3-12-flowered.
• Corolla tube columnar, 4.8-14 mm long, lobes 1.2-3.8 mm × 1-3.1 mm, white, cream, yellow, pink, white with orange tube, or with a buff coloured tube and white lobes.
• Fruit with 1-2 articles in each string, ellipsoid or globose, 6-20(- 25.3) mm × 4.8-11.4 mm, maturing black.

A. reinwardtii is found in a wide range of habitats from primary or secondary lowland to montane or peat swamp forest or in scrub or open ridges; on granitic, sandy, clay or ultrabasic soils, from sea-level to 3050 m. A. reinwardtii is extremely variable and widespread, but no satisfactory infraspecific classification can be established.

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